• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    seriously? “kicking the can” is worse than having another trump presidency? ok… do what you will. i hope you feel good about yourself, voting against biden once we’re living under a textbook definition of dictatorship

    • HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      I’m going to disagree with my fellow Hexbear above and state that we’re not even kicking the can with Biden. The progression towards fascism doesn’t pause when a Democrat is in the chair. It continues the same just with different abstractions as the reasoning.

      This exact thing happened under Trump. He fired people and kept a tighter inner-circle. If you’re really honest you’ll find Biden doing a lot of the same stuff Trump did.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      We were told to vote for Biden last time to avoid a genocide (✖️) to get kids out of cages (✖️) to stop the border wall (✖️) to stop Trumps racist immigration policy (✖️) to protect queer people (✖️) to protect abortion rights (✖️) to take climate seriously (✖️) to handle covid (✖️) to “believe science” (✖️) to have competent foreign policy (✖️) to stop the polices violent handling of protestors (✖️) to defund the police or at least stop giving them more money (✖️)

      Voting for a democrat is just, at best, voting for last elections republican, but without public opposition. Voting legitimises power and a vote for Biden makes him believe he’s right to ignore his promises and instead go full on police state.

      Now we’re being browbeat with the threat of “democracy being destroyed” by a man Biden has had 4 years to do something about, yet hadn’t.